Media Wiki Installation using Wamp Server June 11, 2008

Hey what about an idea of setting up your own Wikipedia like website where you can publish your articles. Sounds cool na. So lets do this.

So what are the requirements?

For installation of Media Wiki, you need an Apache Server, PHP, MySQL, Media WIki and a PC of course . Well it might seems confusing at this stage but hold on. No need to be panicked. Apache Server, PHP and MySQL come in one bundle called Wamp Server. Below I am providing the links for downloading the required stuff.

• Wamp Server – http://www.en.wampserver.com/download.php
• Media Wiki – http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Download

What is Media Wiki ?

Media wiki is a content management system. According to Wikipedia

MediaWiki is a web-based wiki software application used by all projects of the Wikimedia Foundation, all wikis hosted by Wikia, and many other wikis, including some of the largest and most popular ones. Originally developed to serve the needs of the free content Wikipedia encyclopedia, today it has also been deployed by companies for internal knowledge management, and as a content management system. Notably, Novell uses it to operate several of its high traffic websites.

MediaWiki is written in the PHP programming language, and can use either the MySQL or PostgreSQL relational database management system. MediaWiki is distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License while its documentation is released under the GFDL and partly in the public domain, making it free and open source software.

What is Wamp Server?

As I said earlier, Wamp sever is a bundle of Apache, PHP and MySQL server. In words of Wamp server website

WampServer is a Windows web development environment. It allows you to create web applications with Apache, PHP and the MySQL database. It also comes with PHPMyAdmin and SQLiteManager to easily manage your databases.

OK !!! Enough funda, let’s get started with our business.

1. Well first download the wamp server and install it like any other windows software. Installation is pretty easy. Just accept the default values.

2. Start the wamp server from Start menu

3. Right click on wamp server icon on system notification area and open phpMyAdmin.

4. Create the database for wiki.

5. Click the icon shown.

6. Click the icon shown.

7. Scroll down.

8. Enter password for database and then press Go.

9. Now go to wamp directory. Generally it is C:\wamp or C:\Program Files\wamp
10. Create a directory named “wiki” there.
11. Extract the content of mediawiki‐1.12.0.tar.gz here. A directory named mediawiki‐1.12.0 will be formed. Open this directory and cut all of its contents and paste to wiki directory.
12. Now open http://localhost/wiki in your browser. You will see following. Click the link shown.

13. Give a name to your wiki.

14. Enter admin username and password for wiki. This username and password is required for maintenance of wiki.

15. Scroll down.

16. Enter the database name, username of database and password created in step 8. Username is root.

17. Click install wiki to install the Media Wiki.

18. Note installation successful message. Click on “this link” to go to next stage.

19. Now copy C:/wamp/wiki/config/LocalSettings.php to C:/wamp/wiki directory

20. Now open http://localhost/wiki in your browser. You will see this.

Hurray, your wiki is installed . Start posting content and building your wiki.

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